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I recently got back into the helmet market as my latest helmet causes pain to my left ear after riding an hour or more. During my search for better head space, I hope to share knowledge you’ll find useful when purchasing the most important piece of safety equipment for riding.

Let’s talk about fitment. Generally, people buy a helmet that is too large. Don’t do that. Helmets should be snug when they go on and you can expect them to loosen about 10% as they break in. It’s best to go by the manufacturer’s size chart. Get a soft tape measure or use some string and a normal ruler and measure your head. These YouTube videos might help.

A great trick I found is to remove the cheek pads when trying helmets on. Cheek pads are typically the tightest feeling part of a new helmet. They are also the part that will break in the most and are the least important as far as getting a good fit.

Riding motorcycles is pretty much the most fun and interesting thing you can do while wearing waterproof pants, and it’s even better with other people. For both group riders and ride leaders, nothing beats grinning and babbling like idiots with like-minded motorcyclists after railing a particularly tasty tangle of twisties.

But a sublime shared riding experience doesn’t just happen.

I don’t want to get all zen here, but it takes a conscious, continuous effort to create an environment or culture that maximizes and balances enjoyment and safety. You need the proper doses of velocity and lean angle without harshing the mellow with stuff like groupthink, bad vibes, and impromptu dirt sampling.

In the action camera realm, almighty king GoPro sees little if any competition outside of lower priced, lesser quality “meh, whatever” almost disposables. A while back, the VSN Mobile caught our attention for its best-in-class 360° capabilities. New top shelf cameras on the market rarely make the cut for review because they either don’t offer anything innovative, “introduce” already standardized features or whisper larger dimensions … all with a less established reputation.

It’s hard to get new tech onto the battlefield and even harder to find a fair fight worth picking.

Of all the cams that may (or may not have) flown by in our social media feed, the Rylo stood out in a big way. Its shape and overall technological concept immediately made sense even through a five-second internet ad. That alone speaks to why we’ve decided to give it the focus it deserves.